Phoenix officials say a new system for tracking when police contact people, make arrests and write tickets is now live.<\/p>\n
The news was in an update for the City Council Tuesday on efforts to implement sweeping public safety reforms.<\/p>\n
The City Council approved dozens of reforms last year in response to Justice Department findings that Phoenix police abuse civil rights.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Phoenix didn\u2019t make officers report basic enforcement information that could be searched for signs of discriminatory policing.<\/p>\n
Technical Services Director Jody Wolf told council members that the new records management system is a major step forward.<\/p>\n
KJZZ’s “Policing the Police” series examines the U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Phoenix by section, as well as the city’s efforts to self-impose reforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously we could only share raw data which was often limited by inconsistencies in collection and aggregation, making analysis and interpretation difficult if not impossible,\u201d Wolf said<\/p>\n
Separately, Phoenix police say they will soon ask the City Council to approve buying an early intervention system to catch officers before they commit misconduct.<\/p>\n
The council also heard there forms are about two-thirds done.<\/p>\n
One of the remaining items is how police deal with kids. Leaders called for a policy about a year ago after the Justice Department found that Phoenix police do not account for the vulnerability of children.<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief Jeffrey Benza said a draft will be ready for public comments later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of our vulnerable populations need appropriate services. We are working to improve how we interact with our youth,\u201d Benza said.<\/p>\n
Benza said more than 2,000 responses to a youth survey were used to help write the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix officials say a new system for tracking when police contact people, make arrests and write tickets is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-215932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115180948908440581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}